My name is Harry Candelario. I read my first comic book when I was 11 years old, I was blown away by the art and once I learned that it was actually drawn by people, (and I was a people) I was hooked. I started drawing and never stopped. I got into the High School of Art & Design in NYC and 2 months after graduation I started working at Marvel Comics. I worked for various departments until I landed in the "Bullpen" and worked there for a few years. I continued to hone my drawing skills and fulfilled my dream by becoming "a comic book artist" and did that for the next 13 years. I was more comfortable as an inker than a penciller, it was loads of fun and I was better at it than pencilling because of my attention–to–detail personality.

In 1996 I was introduced to Photoshop. It was love at first sight. Comic book work was becoming harder to come by (so many talented artists—so few jobs) I started concentrating on computer graphics and once I heard about the web and web design…I was 11 years old all over again.

I built my first website in 2 days after I got a copy of Adobe Pagemill, it came free with the printer I bought. I noticed the software had many limitations, so I soon started learning to write HTML & CSS. During this time I had to supplement my income so I started doing MAC repair. Making house-calls and setting people up with home office networks. This led to bigger jobs, working for companies as a part-time MAC IT guy, mostly in New York City. I never needed to advertise, my reputation spread simply by word of mouth.

During this time I was still learning everything Adobe and building websites. I was mostly using Adobe Golive for websites. I became too dependent on the software as far as coding was concerned. My wake up call came when I was told I didn't get a job because I wasn't familiar enough with hand-coding. After that I went back to basics and started hand-coding again. Everything improved dramatically.

Now I'm living in North Carolina, working mostly on web design. I started using Wordpress in 2009 and I love it.

I love my job! I build websites. If I'm not working on a project at the moment, then I'm probably planning the next one. I start out by doing pencil sketches and then mocking them up in Photoshop. Then it's off to Coda and CSSedit to build it. Whether it's an HTML site or Wordpress I try to be as creative as possible while at the same time giving the client what they want. I even do 1 on 1 Wordpress training so they can update their own sites with confidence.

I use Photoshop every single day, but I don't usually get the chance to create digital art. I'm more of a Photoshop "go-to guy"That said, I don't have many "art pieces" but here are just a few that I've done.

This is the final approved sketch done by Andy Kuhn.

This is the vector drawing done completely in Illustrator.

I took Andy Kuhn's sketch and basically inked it in Illustrator.

This was done for Western Reserve Life Assurance Co.

The color for this was done in Photoshop. when finished the file was half a Gb.

When Dan found out what we wanted to do, he posed for a few pictures

this is the one we decided to use

This is Hector Collazo's pencil drawing of Dan Peters. There were no corrections needed. He nailed it on the first try.

I used Photoshop to paint Hector's pencil art. I used the photo of Dan for the jeans, toolbox and the drill.

I started working at Marvel Comics 2 months after graduating from the High School of Art & Design on East 57th street in NY. I worked in the Bullpen from 1980 to 1989. By 1989 I was an inking assistant for Mark Texeira and Bob Layton. From then on I was a freelance inker until 2001. Some of the titles I worked on were Quasar, X-Force, X-Men 2099, Marvel Adventures and the short lived Spiderman Unlimited, just to name a few.